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((Short description|Memoir by Israeli author Amos Oz))
((about|the book|the film|A Tale of Love and Darkness (film)))

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'''''A Tale of Love and Darkness''''' (((lang-he|סיפור על אהבה וחושך)) ''Sipur al ahava ve choshech'') is a memoir by the [[Israel]]i author [[Amos Oz]], first published in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] in 2002.

The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. In 2011, a bootleg Kurdish translation was found in a bookstore in northern Iraq. Oz was reportedly delighted.<ref name="haaretz">((cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-author-amos-oz-now-in-an-iraqi-bookstore-near-you-1.384107 |title=Israeli author Amos Oz, now in an Iraqi bookstore near you: 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' published in English in 2004, has sold more than a million copies worldwide, and officially translated into 28 languages |last=Blass |first=Ido|date=13 September 2011 |accessdate=1 January 2012 |work=[[Haaretz]]))</ref>

== Background ==
The book documents much of Oz's early life, and includes a family history researched by an uncle of his father.  It describes a number of events he previously hadn't communicated. For example, before writing the book, Oz had avoided discussing his mother's 1952 suicide with his father, or writing publicly about it.<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/books/review/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-motherland.html|title='A Tale of Love and Darkness': Motherland|last=Leonard|first=John|date=2004-12-12|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-08-27))</ref>

==Summary==
((more citations needed|section|date=January 2017))
Oz chronicles his childhood in [[Jerusalem]] in the last years of [[Mandatory Palestine]] and the early years of the State of Israel.  The love and darkness of his title refer to his mother, whose suffering from severe depression led her to take her own life when he was a boy.  The book is an effort to describe Oz's feelings for his mother and the pain of losing her. After her death he spent his teenage years on [[Kibbutz]] [[Hulda, Israel|Hulda]].

His parents, mother Fania Mussman and father Ariyeh Klausner, feature as prominent characters within the book. Importantly, his mother's 1952 overdose of sleeping pills becomes the point of exploration for the work, launching the deep probing into other parts of his childhood and youth. As a child, he crossed paths with prominent figures in Israeli society, among them [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], [[Shaul Tchernichovsky]], and [[David Ben-Gurion]]. One of his teachers was the Israeli poet [[Zelda (poet)|Zelda]]. Historian [[Joseph Klausner]] was his great-uncle.

Told in a non-linear fashion, Oz's story is interwoven with tales of his family's [[Eastern European]] roots.  The original family name was Klausner. By changing his own name to a Hebrew one, Oz separated himself from his father.

==Film adaptation==
((main article|A Tale of Love and Darkness (film)))
A production company owned by [[Natalie Portman]] acquired the film rights to the book.<ref name="haaretz"/> Portman began shooting the movie in February 2014 in [[Jerusalem]]. The film marks her directorial feature film debut and she also plays the role of Oz's mother; [[Slawomir Idziak]] is director of photography<ref>((cite web |url= https://www.indiewire.com/2014/02/natalie-portman-starts-shooting-feature-directing-debut-a-tale-of-love-and-darkness-in-jerusalem-updated-193684/ |title=Natalie Portman Starts Shooting Feature Directing Debut 'A Tale of Love and Darkness' in Jerusalem UPDATED|first=Beth|last=Hanna|work=[[Indiewire]]|date=12 February 2014|accessdate=30 December 2018))</ref> and Amir Tessler played the young Oz.<ref>((Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/obituaries/amos-oz-dead.html |title=Amos Oz, Israeli Author and Peace Advocate, Dies at 79  |last=Kershner |first=Isabel |author-link=Isabel Kershner|date=28 December 2018 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=30 December 2018))</ref>

==Translations==
[[Elias Khoury (lawyer)|Elias Khoury]], a Palestinian-Israeli lawyer whose father Daoud was a victim in a suicide bombing of Zion Square and whose son George was shot to death by [[Palestinian political violence|Palestinian militants]] who mistook him for a Jew (see [[George Khoury (murder victim)|George Khoury]]), paid to have the book translated into Arabic and distributed in Beirut and other Arab cities in order to promote better understanding of the Jewish people's narrative of national rebirth.<ref name="ny">((cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/world/middleeast/07khoury.html |title=Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work |first=Ethan |last=Bronner |date=6 March 2010 |accessdate=1 January 2012 |work=[[The New York Times]]))</ref>

The English translation was done by [[Nicholas de Lange]] and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2004.<ref name=":0">((Cite web|url=http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/a-tale-of-love-and-darkness|title=A Tale of Love and Darkness|last=Waxman|first=Maron L.|website=The Jewish Book Council|access-date=2016-08-27))</ref> The translation was praised by New York Magazine's book reviewer Boris Kacha as "preserving the author’s gorgeous, discursive style and his love of wordplay."<ref name=":1">((Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/books/reviews/10597/|title=A Tale of Love and Darkness|last=Kachka|first=Boris|website=NYMag.com|access-date=2016-08-27))</ref>

== Reception ==
The book was well-received, receiving several awards, and a number of positive reviews. Sales of the book were also high, with ''The Guardian'' Reviewer Linda Grant describing the book as the "biggest selling literary work in Israeli history."<ref name=":2">((Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/sep/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview|title=The burden of history|last=Grant|first=Linda|date=2004-09-10|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-08-27))</ref> Grant describes the book as "one of the funniest, most tragic and most touching books I have ever read," and " a testament to a family, a time and a place."<ref name=":2" />

[[New York (magazine)|''New York'' magazine]] reviewer Boris Kachika described the book as very well written, though "sometimes meandering," but all in all a "sophisticated and searing memorial."<ref name=":1" /> The Jewish Book Council reviewer, Maron L. Waxmon called it "a masterful double memoir" of both himself and "Israel's birth and early years."<ref name=":0" />  For Waxman, "This is an important and richly rewarding book, sensitively told and filled with memorably drawn characters."<ref name=":0" />

==Controversy==
In March 2011, Oz sent imprisoned former [[Tanzim]] leader [[Marwan Barghouti]] a copy of his book ''A Tale of Love and Darkness'' in Arabic translation with his personal dedication in Hebrew: “This story is our story, I hope you read it and understand us as we understand you, hoping to see you outside and in peace, yours, Amos Oz”.<ref>((cite news| url=http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=212281| work=Jerusalem Post| title=Amos Oz calls for Barghouti's release in book dedication | date=March 15, 2011 | accessdate=March 28, 2011))</ref> The gesture was criticized by members of rightist political parties,<ref>((cite news| url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4043248,00.html| work=Ynet, Israel News| title=Amos Oz sends book to jailed Barghouti| first=Zvika | last=Brut| date=March 16, 2011 | accessdate=March 28, 2011))</ref> among them Likud MK [[Tzipi Hotovely]].<ref>''Book of Esther: Jewish fate ever since'', Tzipi Hotovely, Israel Today" 17/03/2011</ref> [[Assaf Harofeh Hospital]] canceled Oz's invitation to give the keynote speech at an awards ceremony for outstanding physicians in the wake of this incident, leading to widespread criticism of the "small-minded" hospital.<ref>((cite news| url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/who-is-sick-enough-to-censor-amos-oz-1.352008| work=Haaretz| title=Who is sick enough to censor Amos Oz?|first=Gideon| last=Levy | date=March 27, 2011 | accessdate=March 28, 2011))</ref>

==Awards and honours==
*2005: [[JQ Wingate Prize]], nonfiction
*2005: [[Koret Jewish Book Award]], biography, autobiography or literary study
*2005: [[National Jewish Book Awards]] for Jewish Book of the Year<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30761|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20))</ref>

==References==
((reflist))

((DEFAULTSORT:Tale Of Love And Darkness))
[[Category:Literary autobiographies]]
[[Category:Novels by Amos Oz]]
[[Category:21st-century Israeli novels]]
[[Category:2002 novels]]
[[Category:Autobiographical novels]]
[[Category:Hebrew-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in Israel]]
[[Category:Israeli novels adapted into films]]
[[Category:National Jewish Book Award winners]]

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